Political memoir by former factional boss Kim Carr also claims Gillard used 'tricked-up’ polling funded by the mining industry to build case to oust Rudd
A new book claims Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd had a Kirribilli-style secret deal to hand over the prime ministership.A new book claims Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd had a Kirribilli-style secret deal to hand over the prime ministership.
He writes: “In her office she showed me private polling … That polling suggested the public’s support for the government under Rudd was weakening. Gillard fixed me with a curiously emotionless gaze and declared coolly: ‘We’re sleepwalking to a defeat.’ I found what she was doing and saying unsettling – and her analysis unpersuasive – but was willing to put it down to the deputy leader being prudent about the government’s condition.
Carr does not reveal how he confirmed the mining industry’s alleged funding of the polling. He simply writes: “The mining industry’s engagement in Labor’s factional politics has received very little public scrutiny. A closer examination of its campaign on the super profits tax will be possible when company archives are opened.”
The polling summary included a series of colour illustrations of Labor seats that would not be retained in the event of a 6% primary vote rout. Throughout his own memoirs Rudd references private polling that Gillard forces allegedly used to undermine him as PM. He labels what its proponents were claiming the polling illustrated in order to damage him as “complete bullshit”. While Rudd rails against the resources industry’s expensive campaign to get rid of him over the super profits tax, he does not claim the industry funded the polling used to undermine him.
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